Gold kicks off

It’s not just on the stock markets that gold is doing well. The wattle season is now well and truly on. Although we have interesting variations around the shire, patches of wattles in bloom are pretty well everywhere. As usual, Spreading Wattle started the show, and Woolly Wattle has been abundant for a month in some parts of the region. Now it’s Golden Wattle’s turn. If you’re in the Newstead-Maldon area, it’s worth a short excursion into the Gough’s Range State Forest. This modest patch of bush has oceans of gold as its understorey.

Golden Wattle, Gough’s Range, August 8: this modest, much abused bush comes into its own in Winter and Spring.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Friends of the Box Ironbark Forests would like to acknowledge the elders of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and their forebears as the traditional owners of Country in the Mount Alexander Region. We recognise that the Dja Dja Wurrung people have been custodians of this land for many centuries and have performed age old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal on their land. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this region.